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ROBERT J. GUNSON, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

CUFF-HOLDER.

S1 EGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,636, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed August 22, 1900. Serial No. 27,686. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT J. GUNSON, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in (Jud-Holders, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is a device for holding a cuff to the wristband of the shirt, this cuff-holding device being designed to en gage and hold securely to the sleeve-stud and be longitudinally adjustable thereon and adapted to hold either a lap-curt or a loop-cud, as the case may be.

The invention "is hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan of the device, showing the same in use. Fig. 2 is an end view, seen as indicated by arrow in Fig. 1, a part of the cuff being broken away. Fig. 31's an end view showing the adaptation of the invention to a loop-cuif. Fig. 4:,drawn double size, is an end view of the device, better showing its construction, parts being shown in two positions by full and dotted lines.

In the drawings, A represents the sleeve of the shirt, B the Wristband, and O a cuff of ordinary kind.

D is the cuff-holder, preferably of metal, which consists of two equal and similar longitudinal sections joined by a cross rivet or pintle a. Each section comprises a thin elongated leaf or plate I), the two leaves meeting at their edges, as shown in Fig. 1, and dis- The ends of the leaves are rounded, as shown, and their meeting edges are indented or notched to form circular openings 0, half in each leaf, in which to receive the neck of the stud (1 when placed upon the sleeve.

6 e are similar holding shanks or branches secured rigidly to the respective leaves I) b midway of their length and at their outer edges. These branches bend inward horizontally over and across the leaves and lap at the middle over the meeting-line of the leaves, be. ing joined by the pivot 01., as stated, around which they are adapted to turn. From the pivot Ct the branches extend away from each other to points over the outer edges of the leaves and terminate in enlargements or heads ff of suitable form, as spheres, which normally overhang the edges of the respective leaves. The branches 6 e are shaped to form a space g between their overlapping parts and the outer surfaces of the leaves to make room for a crossspring h, joined at its ends to the respective branches. This spring holds the leaves normally in close contact at their edges, as shown in Fig. 1, which causes the device to hold firmly to the neck of the stud cl, which occupies an opening a of The leaves. Various openings 0 are formed in the leaves, so that the device may be shifted longitudinally upon the sleeve to hold the end high or low, as may be wished.

In use the headsff of the holder are passed through the buttonholes in the cuff, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. In case of the lapcuft (shown in the former figure) both heads are passed through both buttonholes of the overlapping edges. When the loop cuff (shown in Fig. 3) is worn, the heads of the holder are passed one through each buttonhole of the meeting edges of the cufi, as appears in the figure.

To place the holder upon the sleeve, the heads f f are pressed toward each other, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4, which opens the leaves and permits them to be passed over the head of the stud, said leaves when thus opened or moved away from each other being at all times parallel.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A ruff-holder comprising a pair of leaves joined at the middle, having straight edges and adapted to move toward or from each other in parallel positions, with means for holding the leaves together at their edges, substantially as shown and described.

2. A cuff-holder comprising a pair of equal leaves having straight parallel edges, two edges being together, the leaves being joined pivotally at the middle and adapted to move away from each other in parallel positions, with means for holding the leaves normally together, the meeting edges of the leaves being notched, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. Acuif-holder having a pair of equal elongated leaves rounded at their ends and meet ing at their edges, the meeting edges being correspondingly indented to form openings, branches rising from the middle points of the leaves and at their outer edges, and lapping over said meeting edges, with a common pivot,

and forming an opening over the leaves, a-

springin said opening engaging the branches, the latter having enlargements or heads at their outer ends, substantially as shown and described.

4. A cuff-holder comprising a pair of leaves and branches rigid therewith and extending from near the mid-length of said leaves, the said leaves being pivotally united, the pivot of the leaves being also the pivot of said branches, as set forth.

5. A on lT-holder comprising a pair of blades pivotally united for movement in parallel planes, branches extending from said blades and rigid therewith, and means interposed between said blades for normally holding them together, the pivot of the blades forming also the pivot of the branches, as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 18th day of August, 1900, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT J. GUNSON.

' Witnesses:

ENOS B. WHITMORE, M. L. WINSTON. 

